Grumpy

Name: Grumpy
Author: Elise Gedicke

90 pages

Jesse “Grumpy” Bell is a member of the Via Daemonia Motorcycle Club. Easier to keep people at arm’s length than risk letting them close, Grumpy has lived up to his road name. After a bomb tears through Demon on the Rocks, the Via Daemonia MC mechanic barely survives, and what’s left of him is harder to look at than the wreckage itself. Given his poor history with women, he doesn’t want a broken heart on top of a broken body.
Kelly Doyle has spent years pouring coffee and trading easy banter with the gruff biker who makes her heart flutter like she’s a teenager instead of almost forty. The night he finally asks her out should’ve changed everything—but as her Bubbe always said, “man plans and God laughs”. Six months later, she’s still carrying the guilt of being late and the weight of a warning that paints Grumpy as a man who shouldn’t be trusted. When he walks back into her diner asking for a second chance, she turns him down to protect them both.
But the story Kelly was told doesn’t add up, and the truth runs deeper than a missed date or a mother’s lies. There’s a daughter Grumpy hasn’t seen in ten years, a manipulation that’s cost him every relationship he’s ever had, and a road trip to Texas that’s about to change what he thought his life could look like. Grumpy’s been alone on principle. Kelly’s about to give him a reason not to be.

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Perfect for readers who love a grumpy wounded hero who just needs the right sunshine to find his way back, a small town heroine with a heart big enough for everyone, and the fierce found family love of the VDMC series.

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This book contains references to bomb/explosion, graphic injury and burns, disfigurement, parental manipulation, estranged family relationships, and grief and loss. Please be aware. Your mental health matters.

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